5 best-selling memoir books like Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère

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Yoga

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.87

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

C'est l'histoire d'un livre sur le yoga et la dépression. La méditation et le terrorisme. L'aspirat…

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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

Similar categories in David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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2. Accabadora

By: Michela Murgia

4.07

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

La Sardegna degli anni Cinquanta è un mondo antico sull’orlo del precipizio. Maria ha sei anni ed è… read more

Similar categories in Michela Murgia's Accabadora book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"Quan es té prou temps, fins i tot la ràbia s'organitza."

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"En la hora de la debilidad algunos prefieren hacerse creyentes que fuertes"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"-¿Quieres juzgar el cómo sin entender el porqué? Siempre tienes prisa por dictar sentencias, Maria. (Bonaria Urria)"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"Come gli occhi della civetta, ci sono pensieri che non sopportano la luce piena. Non possono nascere che di notte, dove la loro funzione è la stessa della luna, necessaria a smuovere maree di senso i…"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

3. Felici i felici

By: Yasmina Reza , Maurizia Balmelli

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Felici gli amati e gli amanti e coloro che possono fare a meno dell'amore. Felici i felici>>: le d… read more

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4. Triste tigre

By: Neige Sinno

4.23

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more

Similar categories in Neige Sinno's Triste tigre book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • roman
  • biography
  • memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • french literature
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"

-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre

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5. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

Similar categories in Paul Auster's Baumgartner book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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6. Chi dice e chi tace

By: Chiara Valerio

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more

Similar categories in Chiara Valerio's Chi dice e chi tace book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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7. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

By: Michael Bible

3.60

Format: 135 pages, ebook

Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more

Similar categories in Michael Bible's L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"

-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

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8. L'età fragile

By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostr… read more

Similar categories in Donatella Di Pietrantonio's L'età fragile book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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9. Quando muori resta a me

By: Zerocalcare

4.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Un viaggio con suo padre verso il paesino tra le Dolomiti da cui proviene la famiglia paterna sareb… read more

Similar categories in Zerocalcare's Quando muori resta a me book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. I miei stupidi intenti

By: Bernardo Zannoni

3.78

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Questa è la lunga vita di una faina, raccontata di suo pugno. Fra gli alberi dei boschi, le colline… read more

Similar categories in Bernardo Zannoni's I miei stupidi intenti book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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11. Niente di vero

By: Veronica Raimo

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more

Similar categories in Veronica Raimo's Niente di vero book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"

-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero

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12. Yoga

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.87

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

C'est l'histoire d'un livre sur le yoga et la dépression. La méditation et le terrorisme. L'aspirat… read more

Similar categories in Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • roman
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • france
  • contemporary
  • french literature
  • audiobook
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13. What Happens at Night

By: Peter Cameron

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a diffic… read more

Similar categories in Peter Cameron's What Happens at Night book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • contemporary
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14. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

Similar categories in Benjamín Labatut's The Maniac book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • audiobook
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

Cover of La llamada: Un retrato by Leila Guerriero

15. La llamada: Un retrato

By: Leila Guerriero

4.49

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Esta es una historia real, llena de aristas y sombras, sobre la condición humana. A fines de los s… read more

Similar categories in Leila Guerriero's La llamada: Un retrato book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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16. La ricreazione è finita

By: Dario Ferrari

4.24

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Marcello è un trentenne senza un vero lavoro, resiste ai tentativi della fidanzata di rinsaldare il… read more

Similar categories in Dario Ferrari's La ricreazione è finita book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • contemporary
Cover of Oração para desaparecer by Socorro Acioli

17. Oração para desaparecer

By: Socorro Acioli

4.30

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Uma mulher nua, sem cabelos nem memória, é retirada da terra na pequena cidade de Almofala, frontei… read more

Similar categories in Socorro Acioli's Oração para desaparecer book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • contemporary
"A vida é feita de palavras, elas explicam e fazem nascer e morrer. Se ninguém pronuncia um nome este ser está morto, mesmo que respire e leve um coração batendo no peito. Estar vivo é ser palavra na …"

-Socorro Acioli, Oração para desaparecer

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18. As Pequenas Chances

By: Natalia Timerman

3.86

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

Enquanto aguarda um voo, Natalia encontra o médico de cuidados paliativos que atendeu seu pai Artur… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Timerman's As Pequenas Chances book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • nonfiction
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19. Saia da frente do meu sol

By: Felipe Charbel

3.86

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

Uma investigação sobre o segredo que moldou a vida de um homem, um romance especulativo, uma biogra… read more

Similar categories in Felipe Charbel's Saia da frente do meu sol book and Emmanuel Carrère's Yoga

  • memoir
Cover of Storia di mia vita by Janek Gorczyca

20. Storia di mia vita

By: Janek Gorczyca

3.53

Format: 114 pages, Kindle Edition

La storia di Janek, un polacco che vive a Roma da più di trent’anni, senza casa, senza documenti o … read more

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21. Melhor não contar

By: Tatiana Salem Levy

4.22

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Melhor não contar abre com uma cena iniciá aos dez anos, a protagonista relaxa numa piscina, na com… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Accabadora

Michela Murgia

4.07

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Triste tigre

Neige Sinno

4.23

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Paul Auster

3.78

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Chi dice e chi tace

Chiara Valerio

3.77

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Paul Auster

3.78

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Romanzo senza umani

Paolo Di Paolo

3.09

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Chiara Valerio

3.77

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Michael Bible

3.60

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